BOOKER BLAMES D-TEAM FOR PARTY FAILING PURITY TESTS
Sen. Cory Booker thinks his own party is coming up short. In an interview on NBC’s Meet the Press tied to his new book, the New Jersey Democrat said the party has “failed this moment,” arguing that internal “purity tests” have shrunk its coalition to one “too small to make a big change.” He called for a “generational renewal” and “new leadership” focused on cooling partisan tensions rather than exacerbating them, stressing that Americans “are not each other’s enemies.” “Our ability to fund common ground has always been our greatest hope” and “it is time for a new vision of our country that’s far more uniting, that brings people together, doesn’t deepen divides,” he said, per USA Today.
Senator Cory Booker, in a plucky feat of political self-inspection, has decided his own party’s going off the rails with “purity tests” that shrink their mojo faster than a snowball in a heatwave—apparently, unity means pocketing all the dissenting voices and never, ever daring to lionize the guy who’s definitely the party’s “main character,” aka Trump. Booker's grand plan, delivered with all the urgency of a man hawking his latest book on an NBC couch, is to rally around AI and robots—because nothing says bipartisan cooperation like sharing your fears of the future with a machine. Meanwhile, his campaign coffers, padded by a 25-hour speech-marathon that surely sparked countless soggy napkins in Senate offices, suggest that while he forbids focusing on his own celebrity subplot, he’s quietly auditioning for a major role in the 2028 sequel, or at least another six years of reruns from New Jersey. Comedy, tragedy, or just pure Senate drama? Stay tuned.
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Chester Burton "Chet" Atkins, Mister Guitar (1924)June 20, 2026
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Atkins got his first guitar by making a trade with his brother, and it was arguably the best deal he ever made. Although he struggled with shyness and suffered from severe asthma—he had to sleep sitting up and often fell asleep still holding his guitar—he became an accomplished guitarist and went on to release several hit records, develop a signature line of guitars, and help create country music's "Nashville sound." What did "Mr. Guitar," as he came to be known, trade to get that first guitar?Today’s Holiday
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West Virginia DayJune 20, 2026
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Excluding water, tea is the most widely consumed drink on the planet, drunk either hot or cold by half the world's population. The vast majority of tea sold in the West is black tea, made from fermented leaves of the Camellia sinensis plant. Generally stronger in flavor and more caffeinated than the green and oolong varieties, black tea retains its flavor for several years and has long been an article of trade, serving as a form of currency into the 19th century in what countries?
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